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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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AB Bookman's Weekly
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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The Early Cartography of the Pacific
Author: Lawrence Counselman WrothPublisher: Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: 9781578981625
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge
Author: Mirela AltićPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319615157
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13–15 October 2016. The overall conference theme was ‘The Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: Production – Trade – Consumption – Preservation’. The book presents original research by internationally respected authors in the field of historical cartography, offering a significant contribution to the development of this field of study, but also of geography, history and the GIS sciences. The primary target audience includes researchers, educators, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.
History of Military Cartography
Author: Elri LiebenbergPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319252445
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This volume gathers 19 papers first presented at the 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, which took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium on 2-5 December 2014. The overall conference theme was 'Cartography in Times of War and Peace', but preference was given to papers dealing with the military cartography of the First World War (1914-1918). The papers are classified by period and regional sub-theme, i.e. Military Cartography from the 18th to the 20th century; WW I Cartography in Belgium, Central Europe, etc.
Report of the Librarian of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation
Author: Francis J. CarmodyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520345401
Category : Science
Languages : la
Pages : 200
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Medieval Islamic Maps
Author: Karen C. PintoPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022612696X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition of medieval Islamic maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS). Created from the mid-tenth through the nineteenth century, these maps offered Islamic rulers, scholars, and armchair explorers a view of the physical and human geography of the Arabian peninsula, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, Spain and North Africa, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Iranian provinces, present-day Pakistan, and Transoxiana. Historian Karen C. Pinto examines around 100 examples of these maps retrieved from archives across the world from three points of view: iconography, context, and patronage. By unraveling their many symbols, she guides us through new ways of viewing the Muslim cartographic imagination.
Maps and Their Makers
Author: Gerald Roe CronePublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516
Author: Chet Van DuzerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030227030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.
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